Longtime Yreka resident goes missing

YREKA – The friends and family of longtime Siskiyou County resident Sally Nolan have been frantic since she went missing somewhere between Yreka and Klamath River on Monday.

On Wednesday, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office, with the help of California Highway Patrol aircraft, searched the Highway 263 and Highway 96 areas in Yreka and down river for 78-year-old Nolan, a Yreka resident. Allison Giannini, sheriff’s office spokesperson, said the search will continue today.

Julie Gaines, Nolan’s daughter who traveled to Yreka from the Bay Area upon learning of her mother’s disappearance, said that her mom’s friends are searching the river’s edge for any sign of her.

Gaines explained that on Tuesday, she received a phone call from one of her mother’s best friends who usually speaks to Nolan on a daily basis. She alerted Gaines that she had not heard from Nolan since Sunday.

Gaines, in turn, attempted to contact Nolan and was unsuccessful. She filed a missing person report with the Yreka Police Department and alerted the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Department. In addition, she questioned those who last saw Nolan.

Gaines said she discovered that Nolan had driven her friend, who had just been released from the hospital following medical treatment in Yreka, to his home in the Lumgrey Creek area near Klamath River on Monday. Nolan was driving a white Chevrolet Impala. She left his Klamath River home at 2:30 p.m. However, she never returned to her Yreka residence.

“There has not been any activity on her credit cards and no sighting of her car,” Gaines said.

She noted that she is especially concerned about the fact that her mother has Type 2 diabetes, and there is no way of knowing whether she had medication with her when she traveled to Klamath River.

In addition, Gaines commented that Nolan does not know the Klamath River area very well, so she fears that her mother may have become lost while traveling back to Yreka. Nolan is a former longtime substitute teacher and teacher’s aide at Gold Street School in Yreka. She was co-owner of Nolan Litho & Printing in Yreka for many years, and she is a dear friend to many, said Gaines.

“We would appreciate any leads or information leading to the safe return of Sally Nolan, a beloved friend and mother,” said the tearful Gaines. “Any details, no matter how small, would be helpful.”

Anyone who may have seen Nolan or her white Chevrolet Impala is urged to contact the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office at 841-2911.

Gaines asks for anyone who has any information about her mother’s whereabouts to call her at (650) 773-0949